GA-F2A88XM-HD3 suggestion pls

wigiboy

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GA-F2A88XM-HD3, amd a8 6600k, sapphire radeon hd 7770 vapor x (2x), 4gb gskill 1333 mhz ddr3 ram 4x2, fsp raider 750 watts, are all of this components compatible?? and will this be enough for mid setting gaming?? and is it possible for me to crossfire and use one monitor?? i currently have one 7770 vapor x? i'd like to buy one for my new mobo, my only monitor is acer 23" v233h.
 

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Yes, all those components are compatible with each other.
Depending on your monitor's resolution, you should be good at mid range settings (or better) in the more demanding games with the HD 7770.
The motherboard, while doing CF, is not recommended due to the 2nd PCIe x16 slot only being x4 lanes. And gfx cards of the HD 7770 class don't perform all that well in CF anyway. But, yes you can use one monitor when you CF cards.
 

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is there any motherboards that has 2 pciex16 slots? and if ever, can you give some examples? thank you
 

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They are kind of hard to come by. But here are a couple I know of:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130754
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132054

Btw, I agree with CTurbo. No sense wasting money of the APU with its on-die GPU if you are going to use a discrete card instead. The only drawback would be that the MB's integrated video out ports will be unusable if you would ever need them.